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Urban Tree Canopy Mapping
Urban Tree Canopy Mapping framed as a research-led urban green infrastructure study.
Category
Urban Green Infrastructure
Format
PDF Report
Delivery
Digital download after purchase
Price
$39
Summary
Urban tree canopy (UTC) provides critical ecosystem services—including stormwater interception, air-quality improvement, carbon sequestration, and surface-temperature regulation—yet spatially explicit, city-scale canopy maps remain scarce for many U.S. metropolitan areas. This study presents a scalable deep-learning framework for mapping UTC across five cities that span four Köppen– Geiger climate zones (Houston Cfa, San Francisco Csb, San Antonio Cfa, Detroit Dfa, and Sacramento Csa) using four-band (R, G, B, NIR) National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) orthoimagery at 0.6 m ground sample distance obtained from the Microsoft Planetary Computer.
What the report covers
Urban tree canopy (UTC) provides critical ecosystem services—including stormwater interception, air-quality improvement, carbon sequestration, and surface-temperature regulation—yet spatially explicit, city-scale canopy maps remain scarce for many U.S.
This study presents a scalable deep-learning framework for mapping UTC across five cities that span four Köppen– Geiger climate zones (Houston Cfa, San Francisco Csb, San Antonio Cfa, Detroit Dfa, and Sacramento Csa) using four-band (R, G, B, NIR) National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) orthoimagery at 0.6 m ground sample distance obtained from the Microsoft Planetary Computer.
Pseudo-labels were generated through an automated pipeline combining normalised difference vegetation index (NDVI) thresholding, grey-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) texture features, and morphological filtering, then used to train a U-Net architecture with a ResNet-18 encoder.
Why it matters
Urban canopy analysis supports climate adaptation, greening programs, and evidence-based public realm planning.
Intended sectors and users
CitiesPlanningClimate resiliencePublic policy
Methodology framing
The report is framed around NAIP, Landsat, U-Net, segmentation, using the methods described in the source abstract and paper title.
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Applications and use cases
Canopy mapping
Greening strategy support
Environmental baselining
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